BROOKLYN – The edge that had been missing from Victor Oladipo since his return from an 11-game absence with a sore right knee appears to be back.

For at least one game, Friday's 114-108 win against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center, the deferential All-Star went on hiatus. Oladipo scored 14 of his game-high 26 points in the fourth quarter, including a pull-up jumper to tie it at 104 with 2:36 left, an emphatic dunk that put his team up for good and a stepback 3.

It was Oladipo's sixth game since his injury in leading the Pacers on a 14-3 run to close out the home team at Barclays Center.

"I thought he played angry," Pacers coach Nate McMillan said of Oladipo, who missed three foul shots in a 92-91 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers and went 4-for-15 in a 99-96 loss at the Toronto Raptors two nights ago. They'd had both games in control until the end. "I loved his attitude coming out in the second half, being aggressive and making plays. That's what he does. Tonight, he was really efficient out there. He made plays when we needed him to."

The Pacers (21-12) had their seven-game win streak ruined, but in beating the Nets for the second time they ended their league-high seven-game win streak, too.

Oladipo also had nine rebounds, six assists and two steals. He only need 14 shots for his points.

"He might be a little right on that," Oladipo said of McMillan's assessment about his anger. "I was playing with an edge but being smart about it at the same time. That's what I felt I did different."

Thaddeus Young (21 points), Domantas Sabonis (17 points), Myles Turner (15 points, 12 rebounds, five blocks) and Bojan Bogdanovic (17 points) joined the attack that only had 12 turnovers — 11 fewer than the game in Toronto. Oladipo and Darren Collison combined for 11.

They had one Friday

This victory was about how the Pacers closed. They were disjointed when foul calls didn't go their way vs. Cleveland and Toronto, the latter of which a 17-point lead was squandered.

The Pacers lost their 15-point lead that became a 100-98 deficit to Brooklyn. In the midst of Oladipo's spurt, Bogdanovic drained a dagger 3 to suck the air out where he played his first three NBA seasons.

"Vic came into his own at the end," Turner said. "It was really good to see him get that confidence back."

Nets coach Kenny Atkinson was ejected after picking up his second technical foul. That effectively ended their hopes while the Pacers finish 1-1 on the trip with their next game Sunday vs. the Washington Wizards at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

The victory also averts Indiana's first three-game losing streak, a feat that spans all of 2018.

"It was big for us mentally," Sabonis said. "We feel like the last two games we lost because we gave the games away. So we had to come out with extra energy."

They went up by double digits after Turner's trail 3 at 23-13 with 5:55 left in the first quarter. They kept it there through most of the half but an immediate run came after halftime to turn it into a back-and-forth game in which neither team led by more than five points until Atkinson's ejection.

>> Jarrett Allen (10 points) had his rim protection negated by Young, who went at the 6-11 shot blocker with great success. Young got physical, getting into Allen's chest and to his dominant left hand to finish at the rim. He was 6-for-9 shooting. That tactic, however, didn't work as well in the second half. Young was induced into a 3 to open the third that overshot the rim. Late in the fourth with the Pacers behind, Young tried to post the much smaller Jared Dudley (10 points, six rebounds, four assists). It's a good matchup to go to if Young can post first to get the ball deep so he can immediately get to this left hand. Dudley isn't the most athletic but he's a smart defender, correctly anticipating Young would go left hand to get the steal. The Pacers had to get away from it because the Nets found a way to flip the advantage and using more zone coverage to compensate for their small lineups. Young was 3-for-7 in the second half with two turnovers.

>> The Pacers opened the third by falling into the same problems that have plagued them recently. Turner had Joe Harris (13 points) on him in the post. They didn't recognize the mismatch quick enough, so by the time Collison (six points) emptied the strong side to take his defender with him it was a 3-second violation on Turner. When Oladipo ran the offense in the second half, the Nets committed Allen, who was zoning from underneath the rim, and Harris at the nail to stop middle penetration. Oladipo settled for a pull-up airball. He got smarter in the fourth. Oladipo beat Spencer Dinwiddie (15 points) for a pull-up off Turner's screen and then sold him that he was resorting to the same move on the next play only to beat Dinwiddie away from Turner's screen for the signature dunk.

>> A team that relies heavily on points in transition, the Pacers only had two. To offset that, they had to be better in the halfcourt and they were for the most part. They shot 44-for-82, or 53.7 percent and had 24 assists.